Email is the primary way that most businesses communicate and it should be a priority to keep it organized in a way that will keep you on top of things, and allow you to find things easily when needed. Learn how to use built in Gmail features like multiple inboxes and stars to triage your emails as they come in and get your inbox under control.

Time-blocking is a way to help you set your intentions for a week: you block out sections of time for certain types of tasks or a particular task. The first step I recommend when you are preparing to start time-blocking is to imagine and time-block your ideal week. This forces you to be reflective about what you are ACTUALLY spending time on and be intentional about what you aspire to do every week. Learn how to map out your ideal week and get started using my handy template.

Working all the time does a disservice to you, your business, your family, your friends, and your team. Learn 3 reasons why working all the time is bad for your business and 3 ways to be intentional about your priorities to stay at peak performance. This is a guest post I wrote for Bootkik and was originally featured in their Medium publication.

You will handle every part of your life better if you feel rested and have the energy to take on the day-to-day challenges and joys of life. Learn 3 ways to make self-care a regular part of your routine, so you can feel energized and give yourself a competitive advantage at life.

Guest poster Joel Scott shares a story about the birth of his niece, his reflection on the experience with his family, and his perspective on how to live life with gratitude and humility, despite the challenges we will face.

Each day is filled with a plethora of decisions. When you are feeling overwhelmed by the big ones, try a decision matrix as a tool to narrow your choices and clarify your thoughts. Learn how to build a qualitative or quantitive decision matrix, how to add weighting to your options, and use an objective approach to come to an informed, intentional decision.

Does your TODO list feel overwhelming? Do you have decision-paralysis on where to even start? Learn a process to help organize and prioritize TODOs in an intentional, goal-oriented way so you can get them done!

We learned through the hardest experience of our lives how important it is to surround ourselves with the “Right People”. In this follow-up to my previous post, ‘How to Happygolf Your Life’, learn how to identify your Right People through the Venn Diagram for Life and consider how to add more of those people to your circles.

My husband, Dana Janssen, was the Keynote speaker for the 2017 University of Alberta School of Business Graduation Banquet. He shared lessons from the worst year of our lives when we were “waist-deep” in it. This post has some context on what we went through, some reflections, and how we came out “happygolfing”. Learn more about what “happygolf” means and how to apply it to your life.

Life can be unpredictable. There are any number things that can happen, with varying severity and impact, that you don’t have any control over. Learn 5 strategies that will help you make more room in your life and bounce back faster when something unexpected happens.

Social media can be an unforgiving and ugly place. It is full of so much anger and hate that it is tempting to want to respond in-kind. It is hard to not vent the pent up frustration through whatever channels we can. However, it is our responsibility to ensure that we are doing our part to engage in conscious and intentional ways that combat the vitriol. Learn some tactics to be part of the solution by taking action and not let ourselves be bystanders.

Social media is truly amazing, but it is simultaneously a source of great distraction. By making decisions about who you follow, what you consume, and when you consume it, you can better equip yourself to filter through all the noise and find great value. Learn some tactics that will help you get through all the cacophony and be more intentional about how you engage with social media.

Social media is an incredible way to connect and learn from others. It provides amazing opportunities to interact, which also means there are pitfalls for sharing things you might not want everyone to see. This is the first of a 3-part series on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of social media. It includes some strategies around the good part of social media (connection!) including being intentional about what you post, sectioning, and ensuring your privacy settings are properly configured so you can effectively manage your social media footprint.

I had every intention of writing a 2016 year-in-review but struggled to capture the right tone. It was a hard year and one that I am relieved to be done with, but grateful to have experienced. As I reflected on everything that happened, through many drafts of this post, I decided that I wanted to focus on gratitude. Instead of a reflection on 2106 as a whole, this post is a reflection on the things that I am grateful for and how I have been trying to practice gratitude in my life.

Learning through reflection helps you appreciate the wide spectrum of experiences you have had, both positive and negative. Without looking back and reflecting on what has been, it is easy to make the same mistakes. Reflection is an important part of self-awareness, which is at the heart of self-improvement. Learn 5 steps to help you reflect on the last year so you can set goals for the new year ahead.

Having a general idea of where you land on the introversion/extroversion spectrum allows you to identify how you are most likely to gain and lose energy. Your energy levels impact how you perform, your attitude, and how you manage your clients and team. Learn how understanding your own energy needs lets you be intentional about your time and energy management and how this can help you put your best into your projects, team, and the things in your life that are important to you.

The holidays can be at any given time hectic, overwhelming, joyous and fun. Learn a holiday time management process that will help you minimize your stress and set yourself up for a more manageable, stress-reduced (note I didn’t say stress-free) holiday season.

Project management is, at its core, people management. Our interactions with our clients and team members are often impacted by how we feel and the decisions we make around how we spend our time. Self-reflection can be a powerful way to clarify how you are spending your time, and if you are spending it on the things that are actually important to you. Learn about the Sacred 7 daily self-reflection, including a downloadable template, and how it can help make you a better project manager.